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OK, my fiction list. I know everyone's been waiting breathlessly.
First I want to note certain prolific authors of novels which are admittedly much of a muchness, making it impossible to choose just one. And yet they've given me as much enjoyment over the breadth of their work as any of the "bests". Ones that occur to me are P.G. Wodehouse, George MacDonald Fraser, Anthony Trollope, Patrick O'Brian. So no bests for them, but they're there in spirit.
Eleven again; no particular order:
Emma by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontė
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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